From The Verge: The next generation PlayStation console will be able to consume far less power in standby mode than the PS4. The power-saving feature appears to be an optional setting however, not the default. The news comes via a blog post titled PlayStation Joins Forces with the United Nations to...
From CNET: Video site Vimeo launched a marketplace for video jobs, designed to connect creators looking for gigs with businesses, brands, and agencies that need freelance video pros. Any paid Vimeo member can be included in the marketplace by marking his or her account as "available for hire," and...
"One day, I will stand up in front of this room and teach a class at this university," I joked with my friend back when we were both in our second year of undergraduate studies in 2010. We both laughed at this idea, knowing full well it is a pretty unlikely reality. As fate would have had it, I recently received an opportunity to teach a course at the University of Calgary this semester. Who knew such an impossibility would happen within the same...
It seems nowadays a lot of famous people are often monitored and judged by their social media content. Worse yet, media and news sources often scour into their past to dig up the dirt. I think it is fair to say all of us have made questionable choices, and these are often put on full display, as if to say that the person should have known better when they were younger. As such, I decided it was good for me to go through my Facebook timeline just...
From The Verge: If you’re a Chrome user who likes to have 50 tabs open at a time, Google is making things slightly easier soon. Tab management in Chrome currently requires you to hover over each tab and wait for a description of the tab or to simply spot one visually via the tiny favicon. This can...
From PC Mag: When deciding to buy a flagship smartphone, you expect it to receive regular updates for a few years at least. However, if a leaked Samsung list is to be believed, anyone who purchased a Galaxy S8 or Galaxy Note 8 back in 2017 isn't going to receive an update to Android 10.
As...
From CNET: Sure, you could order your iPhone online and have it delivered to you, or reserve it for an in-store pickup at a time of your choosing. But for devoted Apple fans, tradition is tradition. September means iPhone launch, and iPhone launch means lining up outside an Apple Store to get a...
From PC Mag: Whether you choose a hard drive or an SSD for your PC, every drive will eventually come to the end of its life. Hard drives can develop bad sectors, but do manage to keep on working for a while. SSDs on the other hand tend to just die unexpectedly, but Samsung aims to fix that in its...
From ComputerWorld: Mozilla on Tuesday announced it would accelerate Firefox releases by reducing the interval between upgrades to just four weeks.
Firefox has been on a relatively rapid release cadence - an upgrade every six to eight weeks - since 2011, when Mozilla shifted to a faster schedule, a...
From CNET: Fresh off introducing its first soundbar with built-in streaming, Roku has taken the wraps off its complete lineup of new 2019 media streamers -- the little boxes and sticks you hook to your TV to get Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and, coming soon, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus. As...
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